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Representative Faculty Publications
ACS Nano
Liu, R.; Duay, J. and Lee,S.B. “Redox Exchange Induced MnO2-Nanoparticle Enrichment in Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) Nanowires for Electrochemical Energy Storage.” ACS Nano 2010, 4, 4299–4307.Cleveland, E.R.; Banerjee,P.; Perez, I.; Lee, S.B. and Rubloff, G.W. “Profile Evolution for Conformal Atomic Layer Deposition over Nanotopography.” ACS Nano 2010, 4, 4637–4644.
Analytical Chemistry
Zhang, J.; Wang Y. and Li, S. “Deuterium Isobaric Amine-reactive Tags For Quantitative Proteomics.”Anal. Chem. 2010, 82, 7588-7585.Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Wei,J.; Zhang, W. and Sita, L. R.“Aufbaureaktion Redux: Scalable Production of Precision Hydrocarbons from AlR3(R = Et or iBu) by Dialkyl Zinc Mediated Ternary Living Coordinative Chain-Transfer Polymerization.” Angew.Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 1768-1772.Liu, Z.;Jackson, G. and Eichhorn, B. “PtSn Intermetallic, Core-Shell and Alloy Nanoparticles as CO-Tolerant Electrocatalysts for H2 Oxidation.” Angew.Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 3173-3176.
Wang, J.; Stefane, B.; Jaber, D.; Smith,J.; Vickery, C.; Diop, M. and Sintim, H.“Remote C-H functionalization; using an atom-economical tether (N-O) to obtain1,5- and the rare 1,7-C-H insertions.” Angew.Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 3964-3968.
Wang, H and Rokita, S. “Dynamic Cross-linking is Retained in Duplex DNA After Multiple Exchange of Strands” Angew.Chem. 2010, 49, 5957-5960.
Wei,J.; Wickham, R. and Sita, L.R.“Programmable Modulation of Co-monomer Relative Reactivities for Living Coordination Polymerization through Reversible Chain Transfer between “Tight”and “Loose” Ion Pairs.” Angew. Chem. Int.Ed. 2010, 48, 9140-9144.
Chemical Communications
Yahav-Levi, A.;Goldberg, I.; Vigalok, A. and Vedernikov,A.N. “Aryl-Bromide Reductive Elimination from an Isolated Pt(IV) Complex.” Chem. Comm. 2010, 46, 3324-3326.Harrell,Jr., W.A; Bergmeyer, M.L.; Zavalij, P.Y. and Davis, J. “Ceramide-Mediated Transport of Chloride and Bicarbonate Across Phospholipid Membranes.” Chem. Comm. 2010, 46, 3950-3952.
Cao, L.-P.; Meng, X.-G.; Ding, J.-Y.; Chen,Y.-F.; Gao, M.; Wu, Y.-D.; Li, Y.-T.; Wu, A. X. and Isaacs, L. “Nanotubular Non-covalent Macrocycle within Non-covalent Macrocycle Assembly: (MeOH)12 Cyclododecamer Encapsulated in a Molecular Clip Cyclododecamer.” Chem.Comm. 2010, 46, 4508-4810.
Busschaert, N; Gale, P.A.; Haynes, C.; Light, M.E.; Moore, S.J.; Tong, C.C.;Davis, J.T. and Harrell,W.A. “Tripodal TransmembraneTransporters for Bicarbonate.” Chem.Comm. 2010, 46, 6252-6254.
Jiang, J.; Zhang, J. and Li, S. “Detecting protein interactions in live cells via complementation of a hydrolysis-deficient β-lactamase.” Chem. Comm. 2011, 47, 182-184. Epub 2010 Aug 10.
Chemical Review
Doyle,M.P.; Duffy, R.; Ratnikov,M. and Zhou, L. “Catalytic Carbene Insertion into C-H Bonds.” Chem. Rev.,2110, 110, 704-724.Chemical Society Reviews
Davis, J.T.; Okunola, O. and Quesada, R. “Recent Advances in the Transmembrane Transport of Anions.” Chem. Soc. Rev. 2010, 39, 3843-3862.Current Opinion in Structural Biology
Zhuravlev,P. I. and Papoian, G.A. “Functional vs. Folding Landscapes: The Same yet Different.” Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 2010, 20, 16–20Bryan,P. N.; Orban, J. “Proteins that switch folds.” Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 2010, 20,482-488.
Journal of Biological Chemistry
Shadrick, W.R. and Julin, D.A.“Kinetics of DNA Unwinding by the Rec D2 Helicase from Deinococcusradiodurans.” J. Biol. Chem. 2010, 285, 17292-17300.Chen, C.; Sun, Q.; Narayanan, B.,Nuss, D.L. and Herzberg, O. “Structure of oxalacetate acetylhydrolase, a virulence factor of the chestnut blight fungus.” J. Biol. Chem.2010,285, 26685-96.
Journal of Proteome Research
Cannon, J.;Lohnes, K.; Wynne, C.; Wang, Y.; Edwards, N. and Fenselau, C. “High-throughput Middle-Down Analysis Using an Orbitrap.” J. Prot. Res. 2010, 9, 3886-3890. PMID 20557100 PMIC 2917504.Journal of the American Chemical Society
Brozena, A.H.; Moskowitz,J.; Shao, B.; Deng, S. L.; Liao, H. W.; Gaskell K.J. and Wang, Y.H. “Outer wall selectively oxidized,water-soluble double-walled carbon nanotubes.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132,3932-3938.Ghosh,S. and Isaacs, L. “Biological Catalysis Regulated by Cucurbit[7]uril Molecular Containers.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 4445-4454.
Nilekar, A.; Alayoglu, S.; Eichhorn, B. and Mavrikakis, M. “Preferential CO oxidation in hydrogen: Reactivity of core-shell nanoparticles.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132,7418–7428.
Sheppard, D.;Godoy-Ruiz, R.; Li, D.W.; Brüschweiler, R. and Tugarinov V. “Variation in quadrupole couplings of a-deuterons inubiquitin suggests the presence of Ca-Ha...O=C hydrogenbonds.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 7709-7719.
Berlin, K.; O’Leary, D.P. and Fushman, D. “Structural Assembly of Molecular Complexes Based on Residual Dipolar Couplings.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 8961-8972.
Roy, V.; Smith,J.A.I.; Stewart, J.E.; Wang, J.; Bentley, W.E. and Sintim, H.O. “Synthetic analogs tailor native AI-2 signaling across bacterial species.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 11141-11150.
Fontaine, P.P.; Yonke,B.L.; Zavalij, P.Y. and Sita,L.R. “Dinitrogen Complexation and Extent of N≡N Activation within the Group 6 "End-On-Bridged" Dinuclear Complexes, {(η5-C5Me5)M[N(i-Pr)C(Me)N(i-Pr)]}2(μ-η1:η1-N2)(M = Mo and W),” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 12273-12285.
Guo, C.;Godoy-Ruiz, R. and Tugarinov, V. “High-resolution measurement of 13Cm-13Cand 13Cm-1Hm residual dipolar couplings in methyl groups of large proteins.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 13984-13987.
Oloo, W.N.;Zavalij, P.Y.; Zhang, J.; Khaskin, E. and Vedernikov,A.N. “Preparation and C-X Reductive Elimination Reactivity of Monoaryl PdIV-X Complexes in Water (X = OH, OH2, Cl, Br).” J.Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 14400-14402.
Godoy-Ruiz,R., Guo, C. and Tugarinov, V.“Alanine methyl groups as NMR probes of molecular structure and dynamics in large proteins.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132,18340-18350.
Lab Chip
Kumi,G.; Yanez, C.R.; Belfield, K.D. and Fourkas, J.T. “High-Speed Multiphoton Absorption Polymerization: Fabrication of Microfluidic Channels with Arbitrary Cross-Sections and High Aspect Ratios.” Lab Chip 2010, 10,1057-1060.Nano Letters
Ropp, C.; Cummins, Z.;Probst, R.; Qin, S. and Fourkas, J.T.; Shapiro, B.; and Waks, E.“Positioning and Immobilization of Individual Quantum Dots with Nanoscale Precision.” Nano Lett. 2010, 10, 4673 - 4679.Nanomedicine
He, B.; Kim, S.K.; Son, S.J. and Lee, S.B. “Shape-coded silica nanotubes for multiplexed bioassay: rapid and reliable magnetic decoding protocols.” Nanomedicine 2010, 5, 77-88.Nature Chemistry
Kim,C.; Agasti, S.S.; Zhu, Z.; Isaacs,L. and Rotello, V. M. “Host-Guest Chemistry Inside the Cell: Recognition-Mediated Activation of Therapeutic Gold Nanoparticles.” Nature Chemistry 2010, 2,962-966.Davis, J.T. “Anion Transport Easy as Pi.” Nature Chemistry 2010, 2, 516-517.
Nature Materials
Zhang, C.; Grass, M.;McDaniel, A.H.; DeCaluwe, S.C.; El Gabaly, F.; Liu, Z.; McCarty, K.F.; Farrow,R.L.; Linne, M.A.; Hussain, Z.; Jackson, G.S.; Bluhm, H. and Eichhorn, B.W.“Measuring fundamental properties in operating solid oxide electrochemical cells by using in situ X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.“ Nature Materials 2010, 9, 944–949.Nucleic Acids Research
Bond, L.M.; Peters,J.P.; Becker, N.A.; Kahn J.D. andMaher, L.J. “Gene repression by minimal lac loops in vivo.” Nucleic Acids Res. 2010,38, 8072-8082.Thomas, S.; Keller, C.; Szyk, A.; Cannon. J. and LaRonde-LeBlanc, N. “Structural insight into the functional mechanism of Nep1/Emg1 N1-specific pseudouridine methyltransferase in ribosome biogenesis.” Nuc. Acids. Res. 2010. Published online 11/17/2010. PMID:21087996
Organic Letters
Zhou, L and Doyle, M.P. “Stereoselective Synthesis of Highly Functionalized a-Diazo-b-ketoalkanoates via Catalytic One-Pot Mukayama-Aldol Reactions.” Org.Lett. 2010, 12, 796-799.Yu Liu, Y.; Bakshi, K.; Zavalij, P. and Doyle, M. P. “Pericyclic Reaction of a Zwiterionic Salt of an Enedione-diazoester. A Novel Strategy for the Synthesis of Highly Functionalized Resorcinols.” Org. Lett.2010, 12, 4303-4307.
Physical Review Letters
B. Alver; Mignerey, A.; et al. [PHOBOS Collaboration] “High transverse momentum triggered correlations over a large pseudo rapidity acceptance in Au+Au collisions at √ sNN = 200 GeV.” Phys. Rev. Lett. 2010, 104, 062301.Alver, B.; Mignerey, A.; et al. [PHOBOS Collaboration] “Event-by-event fluctuations of azimuthal particle anisotropy in Au+Au collisions at √ sNN =200GeV.” Phys. Rev. Lett. 2010, 104, 142301.
Adare, A.; Mignerey, A.; et al., [PHENIX Collaboration],“Transition in Yield and Azimuthal Shape Modification in Dihadron Correlations in Relativisitc Heavy Ion Collisions.” Phys. Rev. Lett.2010, 104, 252301.
Khachatryan, V.; Mignerey,A.; et al.,[CMS Collaboration], “Transverse-Momentum and Pseudo rapidity Distributions of Charged Hadrons in pp collisions at √ s = 7 TeV.” Phys.Rev. Lett. 2010, 105, 022002.
Adare, A.; Mignerey, A.;et al., [PHENIX Collaboration],“Elliptic and Hexadecapole Flow of Charged Hadrons in Au + Au Collisions at √ sNN =200 GeV.” Phys. Rev. Lett. 2010, 105, 062301.
Hu,Z. and Weeks, J.D. “Efficient solutions of self-consistent mean field equations for dewetting and electrostatics in nonuniform liquids.” Phys.Rev. Lett. 2010, 105, 140602:1-4
Adare, A; Mignerey, A.;et al., [PHENIX Collaboration], “Azimuthal Anisotropy of πo Production in Au + Au Collisions at √sNN =200 GeV: Path Length Dependence of Jet Quenching and the Role of Initial Geometry.” Phys. Rev. Lett. 2010, 105, 142301.





